Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink
    Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink
    Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink
    Ebook118 pages1 hour

    Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink

    By Paula Danziger, Bruce Coville, Elizabeth Levy and Tony Ross

    3.5/5

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    No matter what wedding dramas come her way, Amber Brown is always bold, bright, and colorful. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+

    Amber Brown is excited about her mom and Max’s upcoming wedding. Not only does Amber get to be the Best Child but all her best friends are invited, including Justin, whose family will be making a special trip back to town just for the big event! But when every conversation about the wedding causes a fight about money, they talk about a having a tiny wedding without any family or friends. On top of that she’s on the hunt for the perfect dress and writing her Best Child speech.

    Paula Danziger called Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy her best friend and her other best friend, and this close connection enabled them to lovingly capture Amber Brown's voice, sense of humor, big-heartedness, and her fondness for puns.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
    Release dateSep 13, 2012
    ISBN9781101581551
    Author

    Paula Danziger

    Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in New York, Paula Danziger knew since second grade that she wanted to be a writer. Beginning her career as a teacher, Danziger taught at the junior high, high school, college levels. She received her Masters Degree in reading and during that time she wrote her first bestselling novel, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. She returned to teaching, but the success of her book encouraged her to become a full-time writer. It was non-stop for Danziger since then. Among her titles are: the enormously popular Amber Brown books as well as Remember Me To Harold Square, The Divorce Express, and Can You Sue Your Parents For Malpractice? Danziger received numerous honors, including: Parent's Choice Awards, International Reading Association - Children's Book Council Awards, a IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award and many nominations for state reading and library association awards. Known as a flamboyantly funny and deeply honest writer and speaker, Paula Danziger knew how to relate to young readers at their level. She was vital, funny, and compassionate. She knew how kids felt, what made them laugh, what they wore, collected, read, and played with. From collecting novelty toys that would make any teacher cringe, to wearing jangly earrings, funky glasses and shoes covered with beads and sequins, Paula Danziger had a direct line into kids' hearts and funnybones. She will be missed always. In Paula's memory, The Amber Brown Fund has been established to bring authors and illustrators to schools and libraries which otherwise could not afford them. Donations may be sent to The Amber Brown Fund/ SCBWI Museum of Children’s Books, 8271 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048.

    Read more from Paula Danziger

    Related to Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink

    Titles in the series (12)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Children's Family For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related categories

    Reviews for Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink

    3.5/5

    5 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink - Paula Danziger

      Chapter One

      I, Amber Brown, have to spend a million dollars.

      Mrs. Holt just told me so. Actually, everyone in our class has to spend a million dollars.

      Too bad it’s not real money. . . .

      Mrs. Holt says spending a million dollars isn’t as easy as you might think. We have to have a lot of facts and figures. And we each have to make a pie chart.

      I like eating pies . . . . not charting them.

      When the project is finished, we’ll have a Budget Fair so you can see each other’s work, Mrs. Holt tells us.

      I think a Budget Fair sounds like a place to go on really cheap rides and get half-price cotton candy.

      Mrs. Holt starts to make a list of things we have to include:

      1. Buy a house

      2. Pay for college

      3. Give to charity

      4. Spend the rest in $25,000 chunks

      Mrs. Holt likes lists almost as much as I do, but my lists are more fun. This is math, which is not my best subject. It makes me wish my best friend, Justin Daniels, still lived here. That’s nothing new . . . . . everything makes me wish Justin still lived here. But he and his family moved to Alabama last year.

      We still talk on the phone and write to each other, but it’s not like having him right across the street.

      Bobby Clifford raises his hand. This makes me think he’s going to make an armpit fart.

      To my surprise, he actually has a question. What about my car?

      Put it in your budget . . . . . but remember, I want details. You’ll have to research the make and the price. Mrs. Holt raises her arm. Ready, class? Start your budgets . . . . . She swooshes her arm down. NOW!

      Jimmy Russell makes engine noises like he’s starting a race car. Vrooom, vrooom, budget . . . . . vroom! Vroom!

      He is sooooo immature.

      Mrs. Holt gives him the teacher look. He stops his engine.

      She passes around printouts of real estate listings so we can start our house hunting.

      I don’t want to look at them. In real life Mom and Max, the guy she’s going to marry, just bought a house.

      It wasn’t so much fun.

      I, Amber Brown, am only nine years old, but soon my mother will have her third last name since I’ve known her . . . which is all my life.

      First she was Sarah Brown. Then she and my dad got divorced and she went back to being Sarah Thompson, which was her name before they got married. Now she’s about to become Sarah Turner. It’s a good thing her first name isn’t Pancake.

      I look down at the budget work sheet. Number one is buy a house. We haven’t even moved into our new house yet and Mom is already worrying about how much everything costs. She says she feels like she and Max are leaking money. Not to mention worrying about how much the wedding might cost.

      Number two is paying for college. During the divorce my mom and dad argued a lot about that. It made my stomach hurt.

      So one and two on Mrs. Holt’s list make me cranky. Three and four are a lot more fun. I start spending my $25,000 chunks.

      1. $25,000 for the Justin Daniels/Amber Brown Travel Fund. That way we can get together whenever we want.

      2. The Mom and Max Wedding Fund. In real life, Mom and Max are still figuring out what to do. Max wants a big wedding, Mom wants a small one. I’m with Max on this one. I think we should have an OTT wedding. Kelly Green taught me that phrase. It means over the top.

      I, Amber Brown, am frequently over the top.

      3. Speaking of Kelly Green, I would give her $25,000 to get her last name changed. I like Kelly . . . but I’d prefer to be the only kid in class with a colorful name.

      What next? I look around the room and get more good ideas.

      4. Brandi Colwin gets $25,000 to start an animal beauty parlor. We painted the toenails on her slobbery sheepdog, Darth Vader, once . . . . . one color per nail. Many pets could benefit from this treatment.

      5. $25,000 to put on Pickle Me Silly. That’s the musical Brandi and Kelly and I are writing. We were inspired when we saw Brenda . . . . she’s my Ambersitter . . . . . in her high school musical. It was so much fun we decided to make one ourselves. So far we have half a song.

      6. $25,000 for anti-nose-picking therapy for Fredrich Allen. He could use a session now. It’s such a habit with him, I bet he doesn’t even know his index finger is in his left nostril right this minute.

      7. I see Hannah Burton staring at herself in her pocket mirror. I bet her charity budget is the Me, Me, Wonderful Me Fund. She gets $25,000 for a personality transplant.

      Mrs. Holt looks over my shoulder. Amber, please remember that you have to present your final project at the Budget Fair. Everyone in class will see it.

      I know I have to get serious. I look at my budget notes. I realize I put in something for Mom, but nothing for Dad. That makes me feel bad.

      Ever since Mom and Max decided to get married and Dad moved back to town, I, Amber Brown, feel like a division problem.

      I don’t need a pie chart . . . . . I feel sliced up already.

      Chapter Two

      Ta-da! Dad shouts. I know who did it!

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1